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NoHolyCows replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.Evaluating the content on human merits is exactly what I’m doing—and on that ground Paul’s letters read as ordinary Greco-Roman... -
Okay. Why do you think the atheists created such a God? But they are our creation, we are not theirs, correct? We are playthings to...
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Hmmm … :unsure: Nah.
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God is all things, yet not a thing; Everywhere yet nowhere. The never was that will always be. God is what many believe they grasp, only...
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NoHolyCows replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.Personal experiences can have public effects, but their contents remain private until independently verified—and even then, what becomes...
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NoHolyCows replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.Anecdote is indeed a kind of evidence—but for third parties it is the weakest class of evidence until it is independently checked. For...
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NoHolyCows replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.A claim is testable only if it yields observable consequences that discriminate it from natural explanations. For “divinely inspired”...
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NoHolyCows replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.Paul did not treat origin as a tangent; he weaponized it. Galatians opens by staking his commission “not from men,” and he immediately...
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NoHolyCows replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.Then you have conceded my point. A claim that is, by definition, private and inaccessible to public testing cannot underwrite a public...
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NoHolyCows replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.If divine inspiration is neither non-human speech nor invariant content, you have stripped it of every objective marker that could...
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A lot of hot air and no substance on the topic.
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I hate words like “exegesis”. There’s nothing special about the explanation of a religious text that requires its own special term...
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Imagine being proud of sounding dumb!
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NoHolyCows replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.“Plain meaning” in textual analysis is not mind-reading; it is the best-supported communicative content recoverable from public...
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NoHolyCows replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.You’re right that other commenters used the word “plagiarism.” I did not. My point was (and is) independent of that claim: whether or...
